Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.
History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go.
Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.